Knowing A Person Quotes

“Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I think a lot of what we learn about others isn’t what they tell us. It’s what we observe. People can tell us anything they want.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

“It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their most hidden pains and hopes, and not know the tiniest detail about them.”
― Kelsey Sutton, Some Quiet Place

“To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes, people never stood a chance in the beginning. Or they might have made a mistake. When people start saying things like she must be a bad mother because of that mistake." .... "It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.”
― Jaime Cabrera

“Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.”
― Uzoma Nnadi

“Ben saw me, not just the curated version of myself I put out into the world, not just the stats of my life on paper. He saw straight through to the untouched depths of my soul, and I knew in that instant that he understood me. He knew me. Without even trying.”
― Jason Collins, Gilded Ambition

“It is difficult to know a person when he is happy because the real face of a person often appears when he is unhappy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I know so little, she tells herself again, searching her mother's face. In the end, we know so little.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

“With the world as with people, you know only the tiny percentage you pay close attention to.”
― Steve Toutonghi, Side Life

“Who is this grave and pretty young woman? Not pretty. Beautiful. Yes, I think so. Who is she? I know so little. In the end, we know so little.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff